The amazing untold story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM set against the profound social, political and cultural changes of the late-1960s and early-70s, using the actual sights, sounds and stories of those who connected through the station, exploding music and countercultural scenes, militant anti-war and civil rights protests and emerging women’s and LGBTQ-liberation movements.

The Airwaves Belonged to the People: WBCN and the American Revolution has two pieces of Bruce Springsteen history that have almost never been seen or heard. Springsteen’s first radio interview and his first live in-studio radio performance were both on WBCN-FM in Boston. And the film has the night he played the Harvard Square Theater in Cambridge in 1974, opening for Bonnie Raitt — the show that made critic Jon Landau write “I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen,” a line that changed Springsteen’s career and led Landau to become his manager and producer. Both were resurrected from more than 100,000 pieces of archival audio, photographs, film, and ephemera collected for the film, much of it donated by the people who were there — so audiences can hear and see for themselves what got Landau so excited.

Virtual Q&A with director Bill Lichtenstein to follow the Friday, September 25th screening!